Is this little girl adorable or what? She just got done helping her Mommy pack all those boxes full of candy making supplies and ingredients! Her mommy is my cousin Cheryl who owns An Occasional Chocolate (love that name!) where she teaches people like you and me how to make simple but delicious and oh so pretty candies and treats for gifts or entertaining!

You can just go to her website and look at the recipes and step by step instructions for dipping, molding, melting, drizzling and rolling to your heart’s content and end up with something that looks like it came from a high end gourmet chocolate shop! The recipes are free, but she also sells the best ingredients that lend themselves to the best looking and tasting results. As you can see by the picture, she ships most items Priority Mail right from her home warehouse so if you check it out today you will get your order in time for pre-Christmas candy making!

Be sure to bookmark Cheryl’s site because there are so many occasions for making these treats - holidays throughout the year, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries… She even has novelty molds like the golf balls she gave Greg for his 40th birthday! How cool is that. They had a truffle filling and white chocolate covering. She even included a tee and a pretty display box. You can get all the ingredients you need and packaging as well, to make things like that yourself. Everyone at the party will oooh and ahhh over it and and then you get to say you made it yourself. Very cool!

Since Cheryl is my cousin, you know she will treat you right! She has built this business from the ground up in just under a year and has been an incredible example of just what a Mom can do, alongside her family and other obligations, to bring in extra income when being home with her children are a priority. If you visit her website, let her know Karen sent you!